#LoveYourHome Bloggers Linky – 19 June

Hello, and welcome to another #LoveYourHome!

Thanks to everyone who linked up last time, there was another fabulous selection of posts that I’ve loved reading, and I’m sure other people have too. If you’re a blog follower, please do take a look at some of the wonderful inspiration other bloggers are sharing; I’m sure you’ll find ideas and inspiration for your own home here.

Before we go on to this week’s linkup, I wanted to just mention Pinterest. I do like to share all the posts on my Pinterest board, and other UK and US boards that I collaborate on too. So, if you do want to think about how your post will look on Pinterest, it could definitely bring in more traffic and exposure for the blog.

Remember, portrait images look best and are seen more, usually at around the magic size of 750×450 pixels. If you have entered some alt text, or text via Yoast or something similar this will help when it comes to be shared. For our home and interiors posts, text on the image always work well. Use phrases that will catch people’s attention and make them want to repin your image, and ultimately click through to view the post.

For example, if I wrote a post about ‘How to Style your Home like a Professional’ I might add this image to illustrate it:

When I share on Pinterest, I would add the title in the description, and as I have Rich Pins enabled, the title would be in bold too. I would imagine it would get some interest if people like the image.

But, if I added this image to our example post:

…and then shared that onto Pinterest, it’s much more likely to be shared further and repinned more. It’s really easy to do via something like Picmonkey and just takes 5 minutes. If you don’t want to add a big Pinterest friendly badge to your posts, then you can make them smaller and it won’t have much impact on the repinning.

So, over to this week’s linky. If you’ve written a post that relates to the home or garden in the last week or so feel free to add it to the linky. It might be a review, a makeover, or considerations for a makeover. You might be showcasing some fabulous products you’ve discovered, some great designs you love, or simply rambling about the lack of storage in your home. It’s pretty simple, if it is home or design focused, add it to the linky.

6 Comments

Thanks for the Pinterest tips! I’m struggling with a blog’s theme that has a featured image of 960 x 332 px – totally unpinnable. I guess I could create a separate image for Pinterest that’s not in the post, but still link it to it?

A great link up again, super tips regarding Pinterest. I love that website and could spend hours on it! So addictive. I have never thought about making my picture pinable though so thank you very much for the tips.